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New Area in Microsoft Research: Looking for a RiSE in Developer Productivity
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area,…
In the news | Dr. Dobbs
Microsoft Research Releases Testing Tool for Multithreaded Apps
Microsoft Research has released CHESS, an automated tool for finding errors -- data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations -- in multithreaded software by systematically exploring thread schedules. Once CHESS locates an error, it provides a fully repeatable execution…
In the news | ZDNet
Non-Microsoft developers to get a peek at CHESS concurrency test tool
Microsoft's CHESS, a two-year-in-the-making tool from Microsoft Research designed to help developers test for concurrency errors, is set to make its public debut in two weeks. Microsoft researchers developed CHESS to help developers improve the reliability of concurrent, multi-threaded software…